GSV Asset Management, LLC ("GSV"), a modern merchant bank that identifies, advises, and invests in the fastest growing, most dynamic companies in the world - the Stars of Tomorrow - today announced a strategic investment from a group led by HMC Capital ("HMC"), a leading Latin American advisory and investment firm.

With a new year just around the corner, December is typically a month in which people take the time to reflect and remember upon the year gone by. Dealt its fair share of political and economic twists and turns, it’s not surprising uncertainty has hung over the nation, denting both consumer and business confidence in 2017.

One of the UK’s biggest credit reference agencies has revealed it is using Microsoft’s artificial intelligence to spot fraudulent loan applications and protect consumers.

Finicity, a leading provider of real-time financial data aggregation and insights, announced today that its Verification of Assets (VoA) solution will be incorporated in the LoanSphere Exchange Digital platform, Black Knight’s new secure online gateway for lenders and third-party-provider systems to exchange data and documents with each other, facilitating commerce via Application Program Interfaces (API).

Today, Wirecard and Mastercard made Pay by Bank app, a fully digital payment solution, available to all Wirecard merchants in the UK. 

CloudTrade, the leading provider of cloud based e-invoicing and e-document processing services, today announced the launch of its Cloud Capture service that will enable customers and their suppliers to process 100% of all their invoices through CloudTrade’s platform.

Hitachi Vantara, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE:6501), today announced new appointments to its global leadership team: Mark Ablett has been named senior vice president of global go-to-market (GTM) strategy and Daniel Chong has been named senior vice president of Asia Pacific (APAC).

MindBridge Analytics Inc, a leading provider of Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions within the auditing profession, is helping Kingston Smith, a top 20 UK chartered accountancy, to transform UK audit analytics.

Europe’s first adopter of the MindBridge Ai Auditor ™ solution, Kingston Smith is rivalling global firms in the application of AI technology, while debunking the misconception that AI benefits come at a multi-million pound price tag.

Rival Systems (Rival), an award-winning provider of trading and risk management software, announced the roll-out this week of new options algorithm design functionality in its Rival Trader platform. The new functionality allows traders to easily design, test and execute options algorithms for futures and equity options with global market data and execution capabilities.